Job Profile Title-     Senior Principal Product Manager

Location/Division Specific Information:  Austin, TX/  P06

How will you make an impact?-  

Jabil is seeking a Senior Principal Product Manager that will be based in our Austin, TX office.  This position will directly contribute to the transformative growth within the Intelligent Infrastructure division, will set product direction across our portfolio, and will help shape the division’s long‑term strategy.

The Senior Principal Product Manager works within the technology and architecture organization and is critical to defining strategy for and managing our product portfolio through the full lifecycle.  Senior Principal Product Managers collaborate with senior executives and business leaders, customers, technology partners, system architects, and the design team to define and manage the direction of our products while ensuring that Jabil continues to provide world‑class systems and solutions.  This role is a recognized authority on market, customer, and competitive dynamics, both within Jabil and across the industry, and leads large‑scale cross‑functional initiatives with enterprise‑level business impact.

What will you do?  - 

• Leads strategic planning and portfolio strategy for the Cloud and Networking product portfolio, defining long-term product vision, investment priorities, and positioning across multiple product lines and aligning them to Intelligent Infrastructure business objectives and division-level strategy.
• Develops and presents business cases for new products, platforms, and technology transitions, including market opportunity, revenue potential, target costs, and return on investment, to secure multi-year funding and senior executive alignment.
• Defines and owns the multi-year product roadmap, including roadmap planning for major technology transitions, translating customer needs, market trends, and technology direction into prioritized, executable plans across hardware, firmware, and software
• Gathers and analyzes market and competitive data, including market size, growth, pricing, technology and customer trends, and competitor products and strategy, to identify high-growth opportunities, validate customer needs, differentiate Jabil offerings, optimize product cost targets, and shape product and go-to-market strategy.
• Defines and delivers differentiated solutions, devising creative approaches to critical customer and user needs and tailoring platforms and systems to the specific requirements of strategic customers and market segments
• Communicates the product roadmap, portfolio differentiation, and project objectives, framed in terms of overall strategic business objectives, to customers, senior executive leadership, and technology partners
• Build strong stakeholder collaboration across Sales, Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, and business leadership to align priorities and drive decisions in a highly matrixed organization, resolving cross-organizational conflicts and trade-offs
• Mentors and coaches product managers and cross-functional team members at all levels, sets standards for product management practices, and works with IT and the broader team to evaluate and recommend tools and workflows that improve roadmap visibility, requirements management, and cross-functional collaboration

How will you get here? – 

• Education: ·        Bachelor’s Degree required. Degree in Business Management, Information Technology or Engineering preferred
• Experience:       Typically, 15+ years of product management and/or product development experience, including leadership of strategy and roadmap for complex hardware/software products across multiple product lines, with a track record of enterprise-level business impact.

 Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:  

·         Deep knowledge of Data Center products, infrastructure, and environments, including cloud computing, system requirements, and the core platform development process, including product management aspects of hardware and firmware.

·         Demonstrated experience in strategic planning, portfolio strategy, roadmap definition, and product lifecycle management for complex technology products across multiple product lines.

·         Proven ability to develop business cases and gain senior executive support for significant product investments.

·         Experience with custom hardware solutions and customer-specific product development, with knowledge of the customer’s product development, organization, and processes.

·         Strong competitive intelligence and market and customer research skills, with current knowledge of end-market trends (products, technologies, customer requirements, and competitors) and the ability to turn insights into product strategy.

·         Analytic and decisive decision maker with an action-oriented, entrepreneurial, flexible, and innovative approach to technical product management.

·         Demonstrated ability to lead teams across multiple ambiguous and complex projects, influencing without direct authority, and to mentor and develop other product leaders.

·         Strong written and verbal communication skills; a persuasive communicator at the executive level who can effectively present information and respond to questions from customers, sales, executives, and technology partners

·         Ability to travel up to 10% as needed

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Advanced degree (MBA or MS) preferred
• PMP Certification is a plus

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